Machine for scouring and cleaning candies.



W. P. WALKER.

MACHINE FOR SGOUBING AND CLEANING OANDIES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 18, 1909.

Patented May 17, 1910.

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WALTER F. WAIJKER, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE OO1\ T- FECTIONERS MACHINERY & MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MAS- SACHUSETTS, A. CORPORATION.

MACHINE FOR SCOURING AND GLEANINGCANDIES;

Patented May 1'7, taro.

Application filed January 18, 1909. Serial No. 472,819.

Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for securing and Cleaning Candies, of which the following is a specification.

This. invention relates to machines for cleaning candies, confections, and other ma= a terials, and is especially designedfor clean- I line 3- 3, Fig. 1, showin the rocking or {vibrating brush. that Wis ocated over the ing pieces of candy that are rectangular or lcubical in shape as for example what is known in the trade as 1 chocolate chips.

One of the objects of the invention is to overcome the defects inherent in cleaning and "scouring machi'nesthat are provided with an internal arrangement of brushes and sieves of the type shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States issued to Gabriel Carlson on October 16, 1894, and numbered 527,662, wherein is described a machine for cleaning candies that are molded'in starch or other fi nely divided dry material.

This invention broadly consists in providing '2. brush-lined sieve, some of the bristles of which are formed with long tufts or bunches and are arranged in staggered-relation to each other, whereby when a constantly oscillating or vibrating brush is made to sweep over the brush-lined sieve, the articles to be cleaned will be subjected to a thorough cleaning and brushing operation on all the surfaces of the same, particularly the edges of the substances to be cleaned when pieces of the material are to be cleaned as chocolate chips.

In theldrawings forming the longer tufts or bunches of the bristles. Fig. 2 1s a longitudinal, vertical sectionpof 1 Fig. 1 on, the line 2.2, showing in side'elevation the tufts or bunches of the brushes that have'diiferent lengths of bristles which extend upward through the meshes-of the sieve. Fig. 3 is a transversesection ,on the brush-lined sieve, and also showing the curved or arch-shaped formation of the sieve part of this 'application, Figure 1 is a plan view showing, general, the arrangement of the brush-. lined sieve arid the staggered relation of.

i with the bristles extending upward through the meshes thereof and the tufts or bunches of, longer bristles. 1

Referring to the drawings in detail, a designates the brush-frame proper that is provided with a sieve Z) in the bottom portion thereof. This sieve is made arch-shaped or curved, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the candies or confections will gravitate or roll, and is adapted to have longitudinal vibratory motion imparted thereto by any suitable means (not shown) as for example, the means employed in the Carlson patent above referred to. d

The brush-frame a. is provided with a re ceiving sieve or shelf portion 0- and a delivery shelf d. The shelves 0 and d are formed with a sieve bottom so as to allow any of the loose material to freely fall from the confections to the lowest or center portion durmg the cleaning operation.

The confections or candies to be cleaned travel, during'the cleaning operation, fromf nates-the tufts or bunches of-the longer portion of the brush which extend through the s'ieve'and arearranged in staggered relation to each other, as shown 1n plan new in Fig.

1, so that .as thevibrating brush, which is shown at g, and the bristles carried thereby,

as-shown at h, sweep overthe confections, the longer bunchesor tufts of bristles f will engage the candies or other substances, that are being cleaned so that they will be tipped or moved against these longer bristles and the sides thereof will be thoroughly cleaned -01". brushed bysaid longer bristles during their passage through the machine, thus accomplishing aresult that th'e' cleaning machines of this! class dome-"a far as I am aware, accomplish at the, present time.

'Thevibrating brushg is adapted tQ,-fl1I'- nish, by means of the openings 4'', a suitable flow of air under pressure inorder'to assist cleaning" the confections, by blowing therefrointhe starch or; other fine, dry material in which the candies are molded in the usual way. The brush 9 is adapted to be vibrated .by means of the lever and link con-' necti'ons j and 70, from any suitable operative part of the machine. The purpose, therefore, of arranging the tufts -or bunches of the brush filaments or bristles in a staggeredrelation to each, other is, thatduring the pas- 5 sage of the confections through the machine all of the surfaces of each confection may be thoroughly brushed and cleaned; by the joint action ofithe brush 9' and t he"1onger tuftsQor-bunchesof; the main brush 'e, as

What Ifclaim, 1s:-

Q 1 will 'apiparent to one-skilled inthe art.

,p'In j-av which; reidsub'stantially. flat and thin, the comb tion 'o'f abI-ush-frame, a receiying elivelgy shelf d; the. brushconvex in cross section v and provided-With tufts of bristles of different lengths, a sieveor reticulated rnember through which the tufts of bristles project, the major portion ofthe tufts bein shorter 20 than the minor portion of the tu ts, a vibratory' brush arranged to be moved transversely over the brush-frame, and in engagementiwith the tufts of bristles thereof, whereby the confections will be tipped and 25 operated upon by the vibratory motions of the brushand cleaned on all of their sur niachine for cleaning confections faces, as described. v

WALTER F. WVALKER.

Witnesses: Y I. CLEMONS, HARRY W. BOWEN. 

